To Test That It's A Mountain

Allman Brothers / Jerry Garcia: 12/31/73 (1)

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Muad'Dib, then take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.
--Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan *

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
--Wanna Yueh's favorite passage from The Orange Catholic Bible *

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it
to pass over me
and through me.
And when it has gone past
I will turn the inner eye
to see its path.
Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
--Bene Gesserit Litany
Against Fear *

Allman Brothers / Jerry Garcia: 12/31/73 (2)

Any road
followed precisely
to its end
leads precisely
nowhere.
Climb the mountain
just a little bit
to test that
it's a mountain.
From the top
of the mountain,
you cannot
see the mountain.
--Muad'Dib:
Family Commentaries
by the Princess Irulan *

COMANCHE POINT
TANNER CANYON SIDEWALL
HOBO CAMP IN ROYAL ARCH CANYON
ELVES CHASM
CACTUS AND COLORADO RIVER
ELVIS SIGHTING WITH CAPE SOLITUDE
FOUR QUOTES FROM DUNE *